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Gabriele Baratto (University of Trento) and Serena Bressan (FBK) presented the work of the HATEMETER project on Islamophobia online at the “XXXIII° Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Criminologia” in Modena (Italy), with a speech entitled “Hatemeter: misurare e combattere l’islamofobia online attraverso l’uso di strategie e contro-narrative intelligenti”.

Sara Tonelli (FBK) participated in the conference of the project “Contro l’odio” for monitoring and contrasting discrimination and hate speech against immigrants in Italy, illustrating the results of project Hatemeter.

Sara Tonelli (FBK) presented the work of the HATEMETER project on Islamophobia online at the “Giornata del Centro Studi sul Linguaggio” in Trento (Italy), with a speech entitled “Hate languages: an analysis of the Islamophobic discourse on Twitter in three different languages”.

Hatemeter and its results will be presented at the “19^th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology” during a panel entirely focused on the project.

Panel 2.11 – 19.09.2019, h. 10:00 – 11:15 – Room ‘Aula LL.M.’

Sara Tonelli (FBK) presented project Hatemeter and illustrated the topic of hate speech at the third and fourth year students of the “Martino Martini” high school in Mezzolombardo (Italy).

Gabriele Baratto and Elisa Martini (University of Trento) partecipated to the “14^th European Sociological Association Conference” (Manchester, United Kingdom, 20-23 August 2019) with a presentation titled “Hate speech against Muslims on social media in Italy and the United Kingdom. Evidence from European project Hatemeter”.

Sara Tonelli (FBK) was invited to be a guest on the Radio Popolare talk show “Tamarindo”, where she illustrated project Hatemeter and its preliminary results as well as the partnership with the dissemination event “Voci per la Libertà – Una canzone per Amnesty” (“Voices for Freedom – A song for Amnesty”) that took place from 18^th to 21^th July in Rosolina Mare (Rovigo, Italy).

The FBK paper “CONAN – COunter NArratives through Nichesourcing: a Multilingual Dataset of Responses to Fight Online Hate Speech” (Chung, Kuzmenko, Tekiroglu & Guerini) on Hatemeter preliminary findings has got accepted in the “57^th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)”. The international conference took place in Florence (Italy) at the ‘Fortezza da Basso’ from July 28^th to August 2^nd, 2019.

Georgios Antonopoulos and Parisa Diba (Teesside University) participated to the seminar “Online Hate Talk – Race & Religion” (University of Edinburgh, UK, 22 July 2019).

Hatemeter project is partner of the 22^nd edition of “Voci per la Libertà – Una canzone per Amnesty” (“Voices for Freedom – A song for Amnesty”), a festival that combines music and human rights and took place from 18^th to 21^th July in Rosolina Mare (Rovigo, Italy). Hatemeter researchers and volunteers participated in the event, where they illustrated the preliminay results of the project.

Georgios Antonopoulos and Parisa Diba (Teesside University) participated to the conference “Violent (and not-so-violent) Extremism and Hate Crime: Causes, Cases, Consternations?” (University of Newcastle, UK, 11 July 2019).

Gabriele Baratto and Elisa Martini (University of Trento) participated to “The Migration Conference” (Bari, Italy, 18-20 June 2019) with a presentation titled “Hate speech against Muslims on social media in Italy. Evidence from the European project Hatemeter”.

On 16t^h May 2019, the University of Trento researcher Elisa Martini presented project Hatemeter within the course of Socio Territorial Work (Mod. 2) at the Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Education of the Department of Biomedical and Surgical Sciences of the University of Ferrara – branch office in Rovereto at the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Trento.

On 27^th April 2019, researcher Elisa Martini (University of Trento) and Marco Guerini (Foundation Bruno Kessler) participated and spoken at the XXXIV Annual general meeting of Amnesty International Italia on the topic of Islamophobia and radicalisation.

On 27^th March 2019, professor Jen Schradie and dr. Mario Laurent of the Toulouse 1 University Capitole and the Science Po of Paris presented first results of project Hatemeter in France within the seminar “Discours de haine et radicalisation en ligne” at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société de Toulouse – MSHS-T of Toulouse 1 University Capitole.

On 18^th March 2019, the University of Trento researcher Gabriele Baratto presented project Hatemeter within the course of Design for Social Inclusion at the Master Degree in Human-Computer Interaction of the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Trento.

On 13^th March 2019, researcher Elisa Martini (University of Trento) and Martina Chichi (Amnesty International Italia) participated and spoken at a university lecture on the topic of online and offline hate speech and racism.

On 7t^h March 2019, professor Jen Schradie presented first results of project Hatemeter in France within the seminar course “Immigrants, Islamophobia and Online Hate Speech” at Sciences Po Paris.

Sara Tonelli (FBK) gave a talk at the Dept. of Computer Science, University of Turin, entitled: “What is hate speech? Insights from cyberbullying detection and Islamophobic discourse monitoring”.

On 31^st January 2019, the Hatemeter project manager Serena Bressan (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) participated in the CERRE Roundtable “Hate Speech and Artificial Intelligence Tools” in Brussels (BE). The goal of this roundtable was to explore the opportunities and the risks of using machine-learning techniques to fight hate speech. The event provided an opportunity to discuss the rules which should be adopted on platforms to maximise welfare and protect fundamental rights.

On 30^th January 2019, researchers Stefano Bonino and Elisa Martini (University of Trento), Marco Guerini and Alessio Palmero Aprosio (Foundation Bruno Kessler), Jerome Ferret and Mario Laurent (University of Toulouse 1 Capitole) and Jen Schradie (Science Po University) presented the Hatemeter Platform (v1) to the Collectif Contre l’Islamophobie en France (CCIF) volunteers that firstly tested the platform for the Hatemeter France pilot in Paris.

On 24^th January 2019, researchers Elisa Martini (University of Trento), Marco Guerini and Stefano Menini (Foundation Bruno Kessler), Parisa Diba (Teesside University) presented the Hatemeter Platform (v1) to the STOP HATE UK volunteers that firstly tested the platform for the Hatemeter United Kingdom pilot in Leeds.

On 15^th January 2019, University of Trento researchers Elisa Martini and Stefano Bonino, and Foundation Bruno Kessler researcher Marco Guerini presented the Hatemeter Platform (v1) to the Amnesty International Italia volunteers that firstly tested the platform for the Hatemeter Italian pilot in Rome.

The Hatemeter project manager Serena Bressan is participating at the “ICT2018: Imagine Digital – Connect Europe” taking place in Vienna on 4-6 December 2018.

In an open and participatory event, organised by the European Commission and the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, citizens can join science community members, policymakers, and fellow ICT-enthusiasts to discuss the future in a digital Europe.

On 22^nd November 2018, University of Trento researchers Stefano Bonino and Elisa Martini and Teesside University researcher Parisa Diba presented the preliminary findings of project Hatemeter at the University of Edinburgh’s Citizens, Nations and Migration (CNaM) Network and at the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.

On 10t^h October 2018, the University of Trento researcher Elisa Martini presented project Hatemeter within the course of Criminology at the Faculty of Law of the University of Trento.

On 5th October 2018, University of Trento researchers Elisa Martini and Stefano Bonino participated and spoken at the event ‘Euromediterranea 2018’ in Bolzano, Italy, on the topic of online and offline hate speech.